Carrier for laundry assorting machines



May 14, 1935. A. F. HANNEY CARRIER FOR LAUNDRY ASSORTING MACHINES Filed Nov. 5, 1932 INVENTOR .J/VGOJ I fiQ/v/vzr /W%@7Wv y? ATTORNEYS Patented May 14, 1935 d H d 2,001,38

CARRIER FOR LAUNDRY ASSORTING a 'MACHINES I Angus F. Hanney, Norwood, Ohio, assignor to The American Laundry Machinery Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio ApplicationNovember 3, 1932, Serial No. 641,110

This invention relates to carriers such as are employed in laundry assorting mechanisms wherein pieces of-work, to which laundry idena tification clips have been secured, are to beconveyed from one stationtoanother. Conveyance is had by movement -.ofthe carrier along a rail, by engagement of the carrier. with a chain moving adjacent the rail, the carrier suppoi-ting the clip and thus conveying the piece of work to which the latter is attached.

Such an apparatus is fully illustrated and de scribed in my copending application for Laundry assorting mechanism, Serial No. 641,109, filed of even date herewith, from which it will be observed that the apparatus includes a large number of carriers.

The object of this invention is to provide a carrier of improved form and one adapted to be cheaply manufactured, as of sheet metal, in the quantities necessary.

The exact nature of this invention, together with further objects and advantages thereof will be apparent from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a carrier embodying the invention, shown in upright or carrying position, parts being broken away to show details of construction; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same in inverted position as when being returned from the delivery end of the apparatus; Fig. 3 is a delevopment illustrating the blank of sheet metal from which the carrier is made; Fig. 4 is a typical section transverse of a return stretch of conveying apparatus, showing the carrier in inverted position upon its rail, together with the associated actuating chain; and Fig. 5 is. a typical section transverse of a delivery stretch of the conveying apparatus, showing a laundry identification clip supported in the carrier, and the latter supported in upright position on its rail.

With reference now to the drawing, the principal parts of the carrier are a rail receiving part, generally of U-form, and a box part at the base of the U, and adapted to receive and retain the laundry identification clip. The entire device is made from a sheet metal blank as indicated, Fig. 3, bent and otherwise deformed as indicated by the broken lines in that figure.

More specifically, the rail receiving U part has a rectangular base panel I, this being the central panel of the blank, at the ends of which are a. pair of upstanding side members 2. The angles between these three members are rein- 61 Claims. (01. 105-154) forced by the deformations 3. The side members 2 are deformed at their ends as indicated to provide a pair of inwardly extending lugs 4. These lugs are hollow, fiat on top, of semicircular contour and have cylindrical faces 5, all as illustrated in the drawing.

The box part of the device includes as its top panel the base panel I of the U. It has sides 6 extending from the panel -I in the opposite directionfrom the side members- 2 of the U. The bottom of the box part is provided by a pair of flanges 1 extending toward each other from the free extremities of the sides 6 and leaving therebetween a slot 8. One end of the box part is open and the flanges 1 are chamfered as at 9 at that end to provide a mouth for the slot 8.. The opposite end of the box part is closed by a flap In extending from one of the side panels 6, with a tab II at its end which is bent around the opposite side panel 6 and into a shallow i recess l2 provided therefor. The angles between the panels I and 5 are reinforced by deforma tions l3 similar to but smaller than the deformations 3.

The blank is cut as at M to provide a finger i5 upstanding from the panel I at one side thereof, into the space within'the U between the side members 2.

With reference now to Fig. 5 in which a rail member A appears in transverse section as sus-, pended from a bracket B, it will be noted that the carrier will ride upon the rail with its U part embracing the rail and its lugs 4 resting upon the top thereof, the curved faces 5 of the lugs bearing upon the top rail surface. Thus the carrier is free to tilt in the plane of the rail, and though the rail have sufficient slope that the carrier will be caused to slide therealong by gravity, the carrier will, nevertheless, remain substantially vertically positioned.

In Fig. 5 the carrier is shown supporting a laundry identification clip C. The clip has a head part within the hollow of the box part of the carrier, and is engaged in the slot 8 of the carrier, the clip being easily placed in the carrier because of the widened mouth of the slot, and the clip being positioned along the slot by its bearing against the end closure W.

In Fig. 4 the carrier is shown in inverted position, resting upon the rail A which is likewise inverted and supported as by the bracket D. It is now the panel I which bears-upon the rail, removal of the carrier from the rail being prevented, however, by the lugs 4. A chain .31! arranged to travel along the rail will be noted as engaging the finger 5 of the carrier by which the carrier is caused to travel, as along an upwardly extending stretch of the rail.

What I claim is:

1. A carrier for the purpose described comprising a rail-receiving art of U-form with rail-engaging lugs inwardly extending from the ends of the U side members, and a box part at the base of the U with an open end and'a downwardly-opening slot leading therefrom, to receive and retain a laundry identification clip.

2. A carrier for the purpose described; of sheet metal, bent to provide a rail-receiving part of U-form, with rail-engaging lugsinwardly extending from theends of the U side members, a box part at the-"base of the U with an open end and slotted bottom to receive and retain a laundry identification clip, and

having a finger extending within the U" ;for

engagement with actuating means to cause the device to travel along the'rail.

3; A carrier for the purpose described, of sheet metal, bent toprovide' a rail-receiving part of U-form, with rail-engaging lugs' inwardly extending from the ends of the U side members, a box part at the base of the U'with an open end and slotted bottom to receive and'retain a laundry identification clip, and having a finger extending from said box part within the U for engagementwith actuating means to cause the device to travelalong the rail.

4, A carrier for the purpose described, of sheet metal, bent to provide a box part having an open end and a bottom slotted from said carrier to travel along the rail.

5. A carrier for the purpose described, of

sheet. metaLbent to provide a rail-receiving part of U-form, and a box part at the base of the U with an open end and slotted bottom to receive and retain 'a laundry identification clip, and

deformed toprovide rail-engaging lugs inwardly extending from the ends of the U side members, with curved bottom surfaces to permit rocking of the carrier in the plane of the rail.

6. A carrier for the purpose described, of sheet metal, bent to :provide a rail-receiving part of U-form, with rail-engaging lugs inwardly extending from the ends of the U side members, a box part'at the base of the U, with an open end, and slotted bottom to-receive and retain a laundry identification clip, and having a finger extending within the 'U for engagement with actuating means to cause the device to travel along the rail, said lugs being formed with curved bottom rail-engaging surfaces -to permit tilting of the device upon the rail as upon said finger engagement or when the railis disposed onaslopel i 7 V I ANGUS- F. HANNEY. 

